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I'm exaggerating only a little

Potentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published.

The timeline to develop coronavirus vaccines blew many predictions out of the water.

Afro-Elitist Propaganda I’m Not Falling For!

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Why mentoring and not papers, grants, or prestige, is our greatest legacy

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Ilia Malinin's prefrontal cortex probably got in the way

AI alignment will likely require creating AIs with genuine empathy

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A compelling tournament has shown the importance of players — and fans — raised outside Africa

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Win the point and lose the war, or learn the discipline that actually gets you what you want

How the People Closest to Us Quietly Shape Who We Become

Prove your humanity once and for all

Step into the boardroom, navigate profit and sustainability rules and guide your club to glory

Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can generate and revise text with human-level performance. These models come with clear limitations, can produce inaccurate information, and reinforce existing biases.

Your internet comes in a sachet now

Despite heavy investments to acquire talented data scientists and take advantage of the analytics boom, many companies have been disappointed in the results. The problem is that those scientists are t...

The case for teaching coders to speak French

Use R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data

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Yemaachi Biotech, a pioneering genomics research company based in Ghana, announced today a partnership with Roche to launch The African Cancer Atlas (

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Be honest, how many books on that shelf have you actually read cover to cover?

Modern religious leaders are experimenting with A.I. just as earlier generations examined radio, television and the internet.

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Why reading—and reading widely—is more important than ever, and how to go about creating habits and practices to allow yourself the space and time

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